Hand cleaning system

• US 10,246,859 B1
• Filed: 02/12/2018
• Issued: 04/02/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hokwang Industries Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hokwang Industries Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Hsu, Chi-Chin
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Tuan N
• Application Number:
  US15/894,114
• Time in Patent Office: 414 Days
• Field of Search: 4628
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 10/48 Drying by means of hot air hair-drying devices A45D20/00; curative hot-air baths A61H33/06; electric heating elements H05B
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 2210/00 Combinations of water taps, soap dispensers and hand dryers
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 5/1217 Electrical control means for the dispensing mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: E03C 1/057 touchless, i.e. using sensors
• CPC Class Codes: E03C 1/14 Wash-basins connected to the waste-pipe
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10009 sensing by radiation using wavelengths larger than 0.1 mm, e.g. radio-waves or microwaves
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10425 the interrogation device being arranged for interrogation of record carriers passing by the interrogation device

Abstract

A hand cleaning system includes four cleaning devices, a sensing device and a control device. Cleaning services respectively provided by the four cleaning devices are different. The control device controls each of the cleaning devices and the sensing device. The control device is set with procedure control data, which causes the control device to sequentially activate the cleaning devices when read. The control device has a first operation mode in which each of the cleaning devices can be independently activated, and a second operation mode in which the procedure control data is read upon acquiring a procedure activation signal to temporarily control the cleaning devices to operate. The control device in the second operation mode determines whether a usage time of each of the cleaning devices satisfies a minimum usage time condition to accordingly demand a user to properly perform hand cleaning.

Claims

1. A hand cleaning system, comprising:

four cleaning devices, each of the four cleaning devices comprising a detection element, the detection element generating an activation signal after being operated, each of the four cleaning devices being activated in response to the activation signal and providing a cleaning service, the cleaning services respectively provided by the four cleaning devices being different, the four cleaning devices sequentially being a soap dispenser, a water faucet, a hand dryer and a disinfectant liquid dispenser;

a sensing device, generating a procedure activation signal when an identification tag approaches; and

a control device, connected to each of the four cleaning devices and the sensing device;

the control device set with procedure control data, and sequentially controlling each of the four cleaning devices, and outputting a simulated activation signal to each of the four cleaning devices through operating time data;

the operating time data set according to the corresponding cleaning service;

the procedure control data further comprising a minimum usage time condition defined on the basis of the operating time data;

the control device having a first operation mode, in which the control device causes each of the four cleaning devices to be activated independently, and a second operation mode, in which the control device reads the procedure control data upon acquiring the procedure activation signal and temporarily controls the four cleaning devices to operate;

wherein, in the second operation mode, the control device receives the activation signal generated by each of the detection elements, compares a generation time of the activation signal according to the minimum usage time condition, and re-activates the four cleaning devices if the generation time of the activation signal does not satisfy the minimum usage time condition.

2. The hand cleaning system of claim 1, wherein the procedure control data comprises at least one set of waiting time data subsequent to the operating time data, and each of the four cleaning devices is not activated in a time interval defined by the waiting time data.

3. The hand cleaning system of claim 2, wherein the procedure control data comprises at least one set of prompt time data before each set of the operating time data, and the control device requests, according to prompt time data, one of the four cleaning devices to be activated to perform an operation prompt.

4. The hand cleaning system of claim 3, wherein the operation prompt is emitting light by a light emitting element of one of the four cleaning devices.

5. The hand cleaning system of claim 1, wherein when the control device is in the second operation mode, the generation time of the activation signal is timed to generate usage time data;

the control device further generates estimated energy consumption data completed based on the operating time data, and actual energy consumption data completed based on the usage time data.

6. The hand cleaning system of claim 5, wherein the control device generates at least one set of user data based on the identification tag and the usage time data.

7. The hand cleaning system of claim 6, further comprising a server database informationally connected with the control device.

8. The hand cleaning system of claim 1, further comprising a wash basin countertop for disposing the four cleaning devices and the control device;

wherein, a wash basin is formed on the wash basin countertop, and the wash basin faces a supply port of each of the four cleaning devices.

9. The hand cleaning system of claim 1, further comprising a display device connected with the control device;

wherein, the control device outputs a plurality of sets of image data to the display device when the control device reads the procedure control data to cause the display device to perform display according to each of the sets of image data.